Which sport has the most fit athletes?

[Takes Two To Tango]

Define fit.

Fit being, you can transcend any sport because of your fitness.

I guess. lol

 

[Sir Elzio Dennick]

Wo can do tis but the track guys?

 

[GSP_37]

Women's college water polo, fitness in terms of fit buns exposure.

 

[Madmick]

Track and field and not really close.

Run 26 miles or a 100m, jump, throw, hurdle or all of them.

Wo can do tis but the track guys?

Except it is. Because Track & Field athletes don't produce the greatest historically measured power output either on an absolute scale nor relative to bodyweight in just about any given time window.

Runners, Triathletes, Cross-country Skiiers, Cyclists, Crossfit Competitors, Rowers...these are all some of the most fit athletes. So are combat sports athletes during bursts of intense activity (that sometime last for up to 5 minutes or longer). Yet, inside a fraction of a second, nobody on earth is more "fit" than an Olympic Weightlifter.

Do you understand this is the primary reason that Cross-Country Skiiers often outperformed everyone else in historical measurements when we began looking at the most rudimentary assessments of work output like with V02 Max? It wasn't that they were necessarily more fit than their running counterparts. But they achieved higher numbers because they were often heavier human beings, relative to long-distance runners, for example, thanks to the fact the nature of the sport reduced the burden of gravity by more evenly distributing the workload across the body, and reduced the eccentric impact of the sports' respective repeated strides. The numbers spike also when you introduce any sort of verticality (i.e. going uphill).

Mass similarly favors Rowers. The second you introduce output per kg of bodyweight they drop substantially.

I'm not naysaying track athletes. I don't think there's any activities that are more pure (& challenging) than running and jumping. Sprinting is the truest sheer assessment of power in the horizontal plane. Jumping is the truest sheer assessment of power in the vertical plane.

But this shit is complicated. I think any of us would be engaged if we got to hear a truly educated person lecture about it.

 

[Possum Jenkins]

I don't know who the most fit athletes are but I know for a fact that soccer players are the fastest

@Sir Elzio Dennick

 

[HomeCheese]

When it comes to being fit I vote cycling and swimming. Swimmer train every day for years straight. When a top shelf swimmer takes a day off it takes them two days to regain to where they were. Plus they use so many different muscles to do what they do. Cycling is just pure grind and those guys are fit AF. Top shelf cyclist has unreal lung power.

 

[Croaker]

When it comes to being fit I vote cycling and swimming. Swimmer train every day for years straight. When a top shelf swimmer takes a day off it takes them two days to regain to where they were. Plus they use so many different muscles to do what they do. Cycling is just pure grind and those guys are fit AF. Top shelf cyclist has unreal lung power.

Cyclists are fucking homos and have no talent with copious amounts of PEDs in their veins

Imagine thinking that's an athlete when you can be a weed fueled thrill chaser doing cool shit on a bike

 

[HomeCheese]

Cyclists are fucking homos and have no talent with copious amounts of PEDs in their veins

Imagine thinking that's an athlete when you can be a weed fueled thrill chaser doing cool shit on a bike

Is this what you kids today call cycling? Pussy generation.

I can so see you on a little BMX bike, perfect post for you kid.

 

[Corona]

There are fat old guys in spandex cycling all over the place in their flock of homos who do nothing but fuck traffic up. They might be “more fit” than the average old fatass but they’re not as fit as the old dudes ballin at LA fitness, old dudes boxing and wrestling or even the old dudes running marathons. Hence why those old guys aren’t fatasses. Shit I had homies that would ride their bikes like 20 miles to the beach and get fucked up then ride back. You can’t crush 6+ beers and do any actual sport lmao.

 

[Croaker]

Is this what you kids today call cycling? Pussy generation.

I can so see you on a little BMX bike, perfect post for you kid.

Yeah they're pussies because they aren't having entire roads for miles being closed off for their stupid little "sport" while having teams of support and juiced to the gills for a childrens activity. You fucking clown.

Sorry but i prefer "sports" with black biseps and explosive movements

 

[HomeCheese]

Yeah they're pussies because they aren't having entire roads for miles being closed off for their stupid little "sport" while having teams of support and juiced to the gills for a childrens activity. You fucking clown.

Sorry but i prefer "sports" with black biseps and explosive movements

Wait, what? You prefer sports with "black biceps"? What does this mean? You love you some black biceps?

 

[freakroor]

pole dancing

 

[HomeCheese]

There are fat old guys in spandex cycling all over the place in their flock of homos who do nothing but fuck traffic up. They might be “more fit” than the average old fatass but they’re not as fit as the old dudes ballin at LA fitness, old dudes boxing and wrestling or even the old dudes running marathons. Hence why those old guys aren’t fatasses. Shit I had homies that would ride their bikes like 20 miles to the beach and get fucked up then ride back. You can’t crush 6+ beers and do any actual sport lmao.

Even at the highest level basketball players don't have to be really fit at all to be good. Show me one out of shape professional cyclist.

The last time I went to the public gym and ran full on A court with the young bucks I was the oldest dude on the floor by well over 20 years. I never play anymore so my outside shot is suspect at best but my conditioning was better than any of theirs. By the last few games I was frequently the first one up and down the court which at least gave me a few easy layups.

Anywho, aside from weights I use the bicycle to keep in shape. I'm pretty intentional with it and I have been a little surprised with the results. I have found it to be some of the most affective workout I have ever done. Plus cycling is easier on your joints as long as you don't fall.

 

[fica]

Definitely not mlb NBA or NFL. To me waterpolo these guys bodies have to work every second then soccer rugby and so on

 

[Rawex]

You can’t crush 6+ beers and do any actual sport lmao.

Not with that attitude!

 

[nonoob]

ICE skaters.

 

[nonoob]

Delete.

 

[PeterGriffin]

Freestyle wrestling should probably be number 1. Strength, power, skill, flexibility, speed, mental toughness, endurance. Gotta be able to do it all.

Pro hockey is all that on a blade a quarter of an inch wide, lol.

 

[fica]

Pro hockey is all that on a blade a quarter of an inch wide, lol.

Not even close waterpolo all these other sports get breaks in their play time and I do not mean time outs there is time of nothing happening but in waterpolo you always have to keep your head above the water and not like when you relax and float on water no arms legs have to work constantly

 

[PeterGriffin]

I think a lot of favoritism is skewing the results here. As far as being the toughest, elite gymnasts and water polo players might not be able to take a hit but their strength, cardio and endurance is off the charts.

Also, paddling should 100% be on this list. Paddling is not rowing, and in my opinion much more difficult. Kayakers and canoeists use boats far more unstable than sculls so those C1's and K1's require constant balance corrections while trying to haul as much water as possible the entire race. Wombats, sea kayaks, mini-K1's... no problem, easy enough, they aren't tippy. I couldn't even get off the dock in a racing K1 without ending up in the drink, so I raced canoes (C1/2/4/war canoe). Despite being up on one knee and only having one blade, I found that personally easier even though you act like a big sail more than the kayakers or rowers.

They're always shredded with lean muscle. Not many ugly paddlers either. Just saying.